Time Flies When She is Walking

So much has been has been going on in our little Layla's life and time seems to slip away so quickly. Now that Layla has been walking exclusively for the past couple months (except for those moments when she is really tired and will bring back the crawl) we have been having so much fun.  I love that I can take her places and she can walk around instead of me having to hold her all the time or have her confined to the stroller.  She is loving the freedom and especially loves wandering around outside.  I can hardly remember what it was like when she was just crawling.  She just started this new thing that we call her funny walk, and it is hilarious. 

Layla's Funny Walk

Besides all the walking, she is starting to say words or portions of words besides mama and dada, and her repertoire of impersonations is expanding all the time.  She can now say her name, and the words more, bath, water (wawa), night night (nigh nigh), ball, baby, bye bye, and hi.  She pretty much impersonates anything she hears like the whale sound her computer makes, sirens, cars, airplanes, the vacuum and hair dryer and she has most of the animal sounds down like the snake, duck, monkey, sheep, cat, dog, and fish, among others, but I think my favorite is her jazz music.  She sounds just like Miles Davis.  =)

We have achieved success in the eating department too!  She acutally will eat some non pureed foods now.  So far she has warmed to eating freeze dried veggie sticks, puffed cereal bits, graham crackers, banana, oatmeal cookie, and rice, with the occasional bit of bread.  It isn't a lot, but at least she is eating real food finally!

Layla eating a veggie stick

I've been trying to expand my creativity and work more on my photography.  I recently started this "Photo a Day" challenge that I came across.  You don't win anything it is just something fun to participate in if one feels so inclined, so I started in March.  I don't have Layla in every shot, but I do put her in a few of them, since she is such a great model.  I've posted some here, but if you want to see the rest and continue to follow them for as long as I continue to do them, then check out the photo a day window on my photography blog HERE.